Eeek! Sooooo excited to hear about your preserving book! Can't wait! And yes, you are not alone, I was left unsupervised the other day and brought home more plants. :) Love the dog in the video too!
My dog joins me in the garden and walks all over my plants, too. Thank you for including that little bit of comedy. I'm doing very similar activities with my cold weather crops. I started my cabbage very early this year let it get good sized, and put it out mid-March under a frost cloth on cold nights. I'll be moving my salad crops out in the next week or so even though we aren't done with frosts for another couple weeks.
Hi Melissa. Thanks for sharing your thoughts in your recent podcast regarding how you feel compelled to put up more, and how this is becoming common in the homesteading community. I have felt compelled to do this since 2019, and I have learned a lot from your channel and the many other homesteading community channels on this platform on how to be more self-sufficient. Thanks for your time and knowledge! Rob
Phahaha my dog started barking when yours did 😂 🐶 my dog steps all over everything too…my flower bulbs are probably trampled and dead at this point 🤦🏽♀️ gotta love ‘em lol So excited for your book!! 🙌🏽🥳
So Pear trees are something that all my has been in my family ..my grandmother had one ..so back in 2002 ..after the burial of my mom ..the next day I planted a Asian Pear tree and it took 7 year to fruit but it produces Super well I Preserve plenty ..fruit ,pear butter is my favorites and I have it in my front of my house and it’s also a Great shade tree the best .,I always tell plenty folks plant a pear tree 🍐 🌱 🌳 I do fight this one Squirrel 🐿..lol
My chickens visit me in the garden! 😆 Unfortunately they think everything is planted for them! Honestly, I gotta put up some fencing to keep them out. They destroyed my garlic that was planted last fall. Hoping the farm stand has lots this year. I love how the pear tree "jumped in" your cart. Things happen to me that way too! 🤣🤔
I have 3 pear trees ! I just bought a pollinator last year ! The lady across the street from me also has a pear tree so it’s also a pollinator ! I got 6 pears last yeAr! Lol I was so happy ! I buy my trees from stark brothers nursery!
The price of perennials have gotten insane in my area sadly. Got blueberry and blackberries for $10 two years ago, now they are $30 at the same locations ugh! Still expanding my garden just not with as many perennials as I would have hoped. My pups are the same about being under foot lucky they are cute lol.
We found Orcas pear and Bosc pear do the best here on Whidbey. The Orcus is really neat because it was found on Orcus island and is unique pear that does excellent in our area. Love Christensen's nursery 😍. Excited about your book.
I watch and hear you talk about seedlings 🌱 and the garden and I'm growing almost the exact same things lol. It's like watching myself. I'm a little later than you though in Maine zone 5B.
I have the same problem as well with plants jumping in my car! Excited about your new book. I’m just starting out with gardening and this would be a great resource.
I agree with you, it is exciting to watch seeds pop and grow! Not much beats that! Life is beautiful! I kind of like your shopping habits better than my wife's! Where she buys a new pair of shoes vs a fruit tree!
I am very excited for your preserving book. What an asset that will be. I'm focusing on tomatoes this year I hope to grow enough for sauce, catsup, salsa and canned tomatoes. I have a good sided back yard but not a ton of space.
Seed germination is always exciting. I'm not to excited to get started yet teens over night n maybe highs in the 30s during the day. We get wet cold in April.
Be careful with those early blooming fruit varieties too. I know of many people in the south who got those early bloomers and they got burned when they all bloomed and then were taken out by frost. At least in New England I would definitely go with the medium to late bloomers because you know......if frost hits those blooms, no fruit that year in that variety.
Do you have a favorite mail order for barefoot trees and grapes? Some of my seeds are germinating. Yay. But no fancy greenhouse yet. Just seeds in the window.
Good video. Nice cold frames...now to build them deeper so you can put manure in bottom, put top soil in and then do your seed starting in there. To be honest, not sure about the bales as they can also be rodent homes...I am assuming they will not be permanent fixtures. Had heard of those multi grafted fruit trees....will be interesting to hear how it does. Have heard of planting multiple trees of different varieties in the same hole as well....something to try perhaps. I have the same weakness with nurseries and so I try to avoid them..lol. Loved the comic relief the dog provided! LOL.
@@MelissaKNorris Yes, I had seen that. Very cool. Good stuff! Adding more manure and then top soil on top of that and making about 3 foot high would give you a frame that you would be able to start your plant starts in...brassicas at least.
I'm chuckling ... This woman is a vast storehouse if self reliance information and that's something I can appreciate. Rid down, stores out of food, her family will be ok, at least much better than 90% of people who are dependent on corporations. Seriously, information used or not but learned and stored is gold. How you decide to use it is on you. Mind you her time not working a job isn't wasted watching soaps and game shows, her efforts provide in !multiple ways. Yes her hubby probably has a good paying job or business but she is not a dead weight stay home woman, she was raised by good people, a son taught to do a little work to pay for things he wants puts him ahead of city kids who gripe if asked to take out the garbage. Laughed when my mom asked who made better apple pie, her or my wife. I was stuck, I truly saw it as a draw. She had a grin ... She taught my wife to make pie, ha, ha, ha.
Hey Melissa, I'm in zone 6a (had to look it up, lol) and have a small yard and want to convert my 10×10 gazebo into a canopy for early starts, so I was wondering what your canopy material is made of and where to purchase please! Loving your channel hun! 🤗
The dog! 😆 He just wanted to play. Thank God dogs are easily distracted, huh? I used to be your “neighbor” (I lived in Mt. Vernon), but now I’m in Zone 5b/6a (SW Michigan) and am chomping at the bit to get my hands in the soil! I planted garlic in the fall and have a cold storage room full of fruit trees, berry bushes, vines, and potatoes to put out here within the next week or so. I’m just nervous because our last frost date can be up until Memorial Day! Any advice?
@@orange2sweet673 Nice to meet you! When do you plant trees, bushes, vines, potatoes, rhubarb, asparagus, ALL THE THINGS?! I’m super nervous… I don’t want to put things in the ground and have them die! That’s a lot of money to have them get killed off because I jumped the gun and planted too early! Help!
Your elderberry issue makes me nervous. I just bought 2 plants and now I'm thinking I should have bought 3 just to make sure I have needed cross pollination
Need your help! Need a video from you for making and canning pickled garlic and garlic scapes with no sugar. I want to put mustard seed and dill in it. All the recipes add sugar and i am diabetic.
I have NEVER successfully grown onions. Drives me crazy because we eat a lot of them. I've done sets and the past 2 years, starts, but nope. Something either digs them up or they just rot in the ground and I get maybe a dozen from 200 starts. All my garden beds are fenced. Stupid chickens fly over the fences. I'd pen them up, but even with clipped wings, they still fly out. I'm about to give up...
My better half and I are in the Shoreline / Edmonds /MLT / Lynnwood area. What would you recommend for a primary calorie producing starch garden vegetable? We've experimented with bucket potatoes and had success so far. Would dent corn work as well? What other calorie / starch heavy veggies or grain would you recommend besides spuds? We have had success not only w bucket spuds, but tomato, green beans some of our blueberry plants, raspberries, strawberries, cabbage, and peas.
Winter squash works well, especially Delicata. I get more per plant than butternut. I've honestly never had bumper crops on corn here so I don't grow a lot.as I get more space with winter squash varieties and potatoes
I have 2 Elderberries that are huge and have flowers and are the same variety and have loads of flowers, but no berries and I have a lot of bees in my garden. How is this possible?
I have the same problem. I've asked several youtubers. I got mine out of swampy area here in Florida so I'm going to water every day. I also have made some of Dave's fetted swamp water in buckets that's ready to get poured. Hopefully today. Keep me updated. I'll do the same.
If they're the exact same variety they can't pollinate one another, you need a different variety but same species, so both Sambucus Nigra but not same variety
I have an patio burnt peach tree for decoration in the front flower bed. Last year I planted 2 fruit bearing peach trees about a half acre away. I noticed that the peaches on my decorative tree were different looking. I did not allow my fruit bearing peach trees give fruit last year cause I had just planted them. I am concerned that they will cross pollinate and if they do will it effect the edibility of the fruit trees. I was told the decorative tree had peaches that were poisonous. What are your thoughts?
Hey Melissa, I have the perfect name for your book, 'Preserving Your Future'. It kind of says it all, doesn't it?
I love the pear tree accidentally “jumping” in your cart. That is going to be me this year. Lol
Lol
So cool about the grafted pear she has!
I'm the same way.!
Eeek! Sooooo excited to hear about your preserving book! Can't wait! And yes, you are not alone, I was left unsupervised the other day and brought home more plants. :) Love the dog in the video too!
I have plants that jump into my shopping cart ALL the time when I'm shopping. ;)
My dog joins me in the garden and walks all over my plants, too. Thank you for including that little bit of comedy.
I'm doing very similar activities with my cold weather crops. I started my cabbage very early this year let it get good sized, and put it out mid-March under a frost cloth on cold nights. I'll be moving my salad crops out in the next week or so even though we aren't done with frosts for another couple weeks.
Hi Melissa. Thanks for sharing your thoughts in your recent podcast regarding how you feel compelled to put up more, and how this is becoming common in the homesteading community. I have felt compelled to do this since 2019, and I have learned a lot from your channel and the many other homesteading community channels on this platform on how to be more self-sufficient. Thanks for your time and knowledge! Rob
Love a tour of all of your garden💖
😂🤣😂 I love your interaction with your dog lol. What a good goofy boy 🥰just wants to play with mama.
Phahaha my dog started barking when yours did 😂 🐶 my dog steps all over everything too…my flower bulbs are probably trampled and dead at this point 🤦🏽♀️ gotta love ‘em lol
So excited for your book!! 🙌🏽🥳
Your puppy dog cracks me up! 🤣 What a cutie. And wow, it's so fun to see all the things you're growing!! Thanks for sharing with us! 🤗
Looking forward to your coming book.
Btw, glad to see we are not the only one with a stinker for a puppy.
I love that you like to do different experiments. It is always a joy to try new things in my opinion! 😊
So excited the native nursery by me opens April 15 and plants and trees always accidentally jump into my cart too. 😂
Thank you!! Love your sweet dog 💙‼️😍
Can't wait for your new book!
So Pear trees are something that all my has been in my family ..my grandmother had one ..so back in 2002 ..after the burial of my mom ..the next day I planted a Asian Pear tree and it took 7 year to fruit but it produces Super well I Preserve plenty ..fruit ,pear butter is my favorites and I have it in my front of my house and it’s also a Great shade tree the best .,I always tell plenty folks plant a pear tree 🍐 🌱 🌳
I do fight this one Squirrel 🐿..lol
My chickens visit me in the garden! 😆 Unfortunately they think everything is planted for them! Honestly, I gotta put up some fencing to keep them out. They destroyed my garlic that was planted last fall. Hoping the farm stand has lots this year. I love how the pear tree "jumped in" your cart. Things happen to me that way too! 🤣🤔
I have 3 pear trees ! I just bought a pollinator last year ! The lady across the street from me also has a pear tree so it’s also a pollinator ! I got 6 pears last yeAr! Lol I was so happy ! I buy my trees from stark brothers nursery!
Very informative. Will get your book when available
Loving your monthly garden update videos!
Thank you for the elderberry information! I am planning on growing elderberry this year
Your dog 🤣 my dog has the very same sassy stinker energy
Girl, start your pre order for the book. I'd buy it!
The price of perennials have gotten insane in my area sadly. Got blueberry and blackberries for $10 two years ago, now they are $30 at the same locations ugh! Still expanding my garden just not with as many perennials as I would have hoped. My pups are the same about being under foot lucky they are cute lol.
We found Orcas pear and Bosc pear do the best here on Whidbey. The Orcus is really neat because it was found on Orcus island and is unique pear that does excellent in our area. Love Christensen's nursery 😍. Excited about your book.
So excited about your new preserving book! Can’t wait👍😁
Just glad to know I am not the only one. My problem is I have small yard. To my husband he says that is a good thing/
I'm looking forward to the new book.
ok, i am DEFINATELY going to need to see more of your dog in your videos!!! mine is the same way, so cute :)
Thank you! Loved all this info on the trees. Passed it on to my daughter 👍🏼😉💜
Looking forward to your book coming out!
I watch and hear you talk about seedlings 🌱 and the garden and I'm growing almost the exact same things lol. It's like watching myself. I'm a little later than you though in Maine zone 5B.
Your videos are always so helpful. Thank you for sharing with us
I have the same problem as well with plants jumping in my car! Excited about your new book. I’m just starting out with gardening and this would be a great resource.
Amazing Presentation. You accomplished so ,much. I can not keep up with you. I learn sooo Much!!!! Thank you so much
Sitting here in Wisconsin looking at more snow in forecast and knowing it's weeks before I can even get in the garden
I agree with you, it is exciting to watch seeds pop and grow! Not much beats that! Life is beautiful!
I kind of like your shopping habits better than my wife's! Where she buys a new pair of shoes vs a fruit tree!
Very excited when your seedlings germinate ❤️
This was very helpful. Thanks! I really want to get some blueberry plants. I live in a big blueberry county but I’ve never attempted.
Thank you, Melissa! Your videos teach me so much!
Thankyou Mel. Great coverage on many topics including gardening. Just joking. Great to see you having fun exploring all zones. Later 💜🥁💜
Fantastic video! Cheers from the South Puget Sound
Omg thats a hilarious story about your chickens! 🤣👍
Can’t wait for the preservation book . 😁 I have a couple of your books already . So very helpful.
The tubs are a great frost protection option and those cold frames look wonderful!.....also I'm totally using this...somehow it jumped into my cart!
“Let’s play momma!” Lol
When I walk into a Greenhouse my heart races...it is really hard to restrain myself 😇
I did the same thing this year: I double planted TWO pear trees, lol! I would've bought that tree too!
Thanks for sharing, would be interested on how the onion experiment turns out!
Great and informative video as usual, Melissa! I loved seeing you interact with your CUTE dog!
I have a pear tree, it's a Bartlett. I have made pear butter, canned pears. I love fruit trees.
My peas sprouted too! 3 days ago.. Im am here in Nor Cal 3300 ft. E. YAY! CLOVER is medicinal too. SAve some for yourself!
I might have a little fruit tree buying problem too. 😂. But you spend the money and they give back for years.
I am very excited for your preserving book. What an asset that will be. I'm focusing on tomatoes this year I hope to grow enough for sauce, catsup, salsa and canned tomatoes. I have a good sided back yard but not a ton of space.
I like the sound of that book.
So excited about it!
My shih tzu puppy heard your dog barking and started growling, lol.
I'm doing tomatoes, garlic, radishes, and sugar snap peas mostly this year. Now i need to learn to safely pickle and can them
I tried seed starting onions. I got two to sprout. 😕. Last years seeds. Will try direct sowing some..
I think you're close enough to me, I have plenty of fruit bushes and fruit trees if you want to take cuttings or some plants let me know.
Seed germination is always exciting. I'm not to excited to get started yet teens over night n maybe highs in the 30s during the day. We get wet cold in April.
I would love to have a book like that.
Possible title for your preserving book.
PLANNING TO PRESERVING
A Step By Step Guide
Preserving the harvest or A gardeners guide to preservation
Nice size garden 👌
Be careful with those early blooming fruit varieties too. I know of many people in the south who got those early bloomers and they got burned when they all bloomed and then were taken out by frost. At least in New England I would definitely go with the medium to late bloomers because you know......if frost hits those blooms, no fruit that year in that variety.
I can't pass plants either!! trees, berries.. spider plant was yesterday!
What does your middle initial 'K' stand for? Does it stand for Kute? Beautiful backdrop! Reminds me of Oregon.
Your dog is a big boy! Oh my goodness hahah
Do you have a favorite mail order for barefoot trees and grapes? Some of my seeds are germinating. Yay. But no fancy greenhouse yet. Just seeds in the window.
Good video. Nice cold frames...now to build them deeper so you can put manure in bottom, put top soil in and then do your seed starting in there. To be honest, not sure about the bales as they can also be rodent homes...I am assuming they will not be permanent fixtures. Had heard of those multi grafted fruit trees....will be interesting to hear how it does. Have heard of planting multiple trees of different varieties in the same hole as well....something to try perhaps. I have the same weakness with nurseries and so I try to avoid them..lol. Loved the comic relief the dog provided! LOL.
The straw bale one has manure in it and I started spinach in it
@@MelissaKNorris Yes, I had seen that. Very cool. Good stuff! Adding more manure and then top soil on top of that and making about 3 foot high would give you a frame that you would be able to start your plant starts in...brassicas at least.
I'm chuckling ... This woman is a vast storehouse if self reliance information and that's something I can appreciate. Rid down, stores out of food, her family will be ok, at least much better than 90% of people who are dependent on corporations. Seriously, information used or not but learned and stored is gold. How you decide to use it is on you. Mind you her time not working a job isn't wasted watching soaps and game shows, her efforts provide in !multiple ways. Yes her hubby probably has a good paying job or business but she is not a dead weight stay home woman, she was raised by good people, a son taught to do a little work to pay for things he wants puts him ahead of city kids who gripe if asked to take out the garbage. Laughed when my mom asked who made better apple pie, her or my wife. I was stuck, I truly saw it as a draw. She had a grin ... She taught my wife to make pie, ha, ha, ha.
Hey Melissa, I'm in zone 6a (had to look it up, lol) and have a small yard and want to convert my 10×10 gazebo into a canopy for early starts, so I was wondering what your canopy material is made of and where to purchase please! Loving your channel hun! 🤗
Put it up
The dog! 😆 He just wanted to play. Thank God dogs are easily distracted, huh?
I used to be your “neighbor” (I lived in Mt. Vernon), but now I’m in Zone 5b/6a (SW Michigan) and am chomping at the bit to get my hands in the soil! I planted garlic in the fall and have a cold storage room full of fruit trees, berry bushes, vines, and potatoes to put out here within the next week or so. I’m just nervous because our last frost date can be up until Memorial Day! Any advice?
Hi! I live in Michigan too
@@orange2sweet673 Nice to meet you!
When do you plant trees, bushes, vines, potatoes, rhubarb, asparagus, ALL THE THINGS?! I’m super nervous… I don’t want to put things in the ground and have them die! That’s a lot of money to have them get killed off because I jumped the gun and planted too early! Help!
@@crestaogle it's possible to do if you use a method to keep them protected but that would take a lot of work. Unless you start them indoors first.
I would love to buy your book
Thank you for all your information 💕 Question do you have a problem with deer?
I wish you were here I have lots of elderberry plants 🪴
Your elderberry issue makes me nervous. I just bought 2 plants and now I'm thinking I should have bought 3 just to make sure I have needed cross pollination
It's 96 degrees here in L.A. today. I'm so jealous of your rainy weather. Are you in Alaska?
Oh, I just heard - Washington state. still jealous...
@@mgs721 The rain is nice for awhile. Unfortunately WA gets 8-9 months of it. I recommend a visit if you ever get the chance.
May I ask what brand cold frame you have and where you purchased it? I’m looking for one. Thank you!!
Hi my name is Anna and I also have a semi uncontrollable plant addiction... 🤣
Need your help! Need a video from you for making and canning pickled garlic and garlic scapes with no sugar. I want to put mustard seed and dill in it. All the recipes add sugar and i am diabetic.
Pickled and canned radishes would be cool too!
Hello
I have NEVER successfully grown onions. Drives me crazy because we eat a lot of them. I've done sets and the past 2 years, starts, but nope. Something either digs them up or they just rot in the ground and I get maybe a dozen from 200 starts. All my garden beds are fenced. Stupid chickens fly over the fences. I'd pen them up, but even with clipped wings, they still fly out. I'm about to give up...
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My better half and I are in the Shoreline / Edmonds /MLT / Lynnwood area. What would you recommend for a primary calorie producing starch garden vegetable? We've experimented with bucket potatoes and had success so far. Would dent corn work as well? What other calorie / starch heavy veggies or grain would you recommend besides spuds? We have had success not only w bucket spuds, but tomato, green beans some of our blueberry plants, raspberries, strawberries, cabbage, and peas.
Winter squash works well, especially Delicata. I get more per plant than butternut. I've honestly never had bumper crops on corn here so I don't grow a lot.as I get more space with winter squash varieties and potatoes
I can't do bare roots... It never works out for me.
Could you share what your medicinal roses are by name?
I have 2 Elderberries that are huge and have flowers and are the same variety and have loads of flowers, but no berries and I have a lot of bees in my garden. How is this possible?
I have the same problem. I've asked several youtubers. I got mine out of swampy area here in Florida so I'm going to water every day. I also have made some of Dave's fetted swamp water in buckets that's ready to get poured. Hopefully today. Keep me updated. I'll do the same.
If they're the exact same variety they can't pollinate one another, you need a different variety but same species, so both Sambucus Nigra but not same variety
@@MelissaKNorris Thank you, that makes sense I will find out from my supplier!
I have an patio burnt peach tree for decoration in the front flower bed. Last year I planted 2 fruit bearing peach trees about a half acre away. I noticed that the peaches on my decorative tree were different looking. I did not allow my fruit bearing peach trees give fruit last year cause I had just planted them. I am concerned that they will cross pollinate and if they do will it effect the edibility of the fruit trees. I was told the decorative tree had peaches that were poisonous. What are your thoughts?
The fruit is determined by the stock, pollination from another variety doesn't change the type of fruit it produces
Does your dog dig in your garden?
No peas😲
My dogs dig way too much and trample way too much 😂
No editing skills, huh?
No politeness skills, huh?